manifold. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

manifold

SYLLABICATION:	man·i·fold
PRONUNCIATION:	mn-fld
ADJECTIVE:	1. Many and varied; of many kinds; multiple: our manifold failings. 2. Having many features or forms: manifold intelligence. 3. Being such for a variety of reasons: a manifold traitor. 4. Consisting of or operating several devices of one kind at the same time.
NOUN:	1. A whole composed of diverse elements. 2. One of several copies. 3. A pipe or chamber having multiple apertures for making connections. 4. Mathematics A topological space or surface.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: man·i·fold·ed, man·i·fold·ing, man·i·folds 1. To make several copies of, as with carbon paper. 2. To make manifold; multiply.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English, from Old English manigfeald : manig, many; see many + -feald, -fald, -fold.
OTHER FORMS:	mani·foldly —ADVERB mani·foldness —NOUN


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